The Verkhovna Rada proposes to disband the TCC and create recruitment centers: what is known
Kyiv • UNN
The Temporary Investigation Commission of the Verkhovna Rada submitted a report with a proposal to replace the TCC with recruitment centers with civilian employees. Some MPs support the initiative, but there are also opponents of this decision.
The Temporary Investigative Commission for the Protection of the Rights of Servicemen has submitted a report in which it proposes to disband the TIC and instead create recruiting centers, which will employ civilians. This was reported by MP Yulia Yatsyk, who is a member of the TIC, on one of the Ukrainian TV channels, according to a correspondent of UNN.
"As for the work of the TCC, we proposed in our report to disband the TCC as a body and create recruiting centers from among civilians. Moreover, military personnel from the TCC are servicemen who can effectively perform their tasks in a combat zone, for example. More than 10 full-fledged brigades can be created from the current number of military personnel of the TCC," said Yatsyk.
Oleksiy Honcharenko, an MP from the European Solidarity faction, said he supported the dissolution of the TCC.
"I see that discussions are starting about whether to dissolve the TCC. I supported and signed the decision to dissolve the TCC during a meeting of the Temporary Investigation Commission of the Rada," Honcharenko wrote.
He believes that the TCCs should be replaced by recruitment centers with civilian staff, and that people with combat experience should perform other tasks.
Roman Kostenko, MP, Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, opposed the disbandment of the TCC.
"Forced mobilization. We are forcibly mobilizing people to defend Ukraine. Mobilization is the basis for supplementing our army to protect our country. No one will do this without the TCC. Who will do it? People's deputies, no. Who can do it? Nobody. You can call it something else, but it will still be the task of this body. You can call it the TCC, you can call it a military enlistment office, but there must be such a body," Kostenko said.
Addendum
In April of this year, Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stated that most of the employees of the TCC were yesterday's soldiers whom everyone admired and was proud of.
"Military personnel and veterans are not beggars, not agitators. They are people who have fulfilled their constitutional duty. We have no right to allow them to feel guilty, unnecessary or dangerous in front of those whom they literally saved their lives," Pavliuk said in April, commenting on the harassment of a TCC employee.
He also acknowledgedthat the TCC system is not perfect and stated that work is underway to improve it.
However, since then, the number of scandals related to the work of the TCC has not decreased.
In August, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, stated that in most of the complaints about violations of citizens' rights by representatives of TCC and JVs that were submitted to the Ombudsman, no such violations were confirmed.
At the same time, there were cases when the TCCs' denials of certain situations did not correspond to reality. For example, the Lviv Regional TCC and JV stated that the information about the detention of the head of the moral and psychological support group of the Sykhiv RCC and JV of Lviv near the Auchan shopping center in Sokilnyky for receiving a USD 2 thousand bribe was in no way true.
However, later it turned outthat the only thing that needs to be corrected is that the TCC official did not demand a bribe, but gave one. After all, the Specialized Defense Prosecutor's Office of the Western Region stated that the head of the moral and psychological support group of the Sykhiv RTC and Lviv JV was notified of suspicion of giving a $2,000 bribe to a colleague so that she would not prosecute his subordinate, who was intoxicated at the workplace.
